Milk-bottle holder.



J. HERBER & F. SLATER.

MILK BOTTLE HOLDER.

APPLIOATION rum MAY 26, 1911.

Patehted June 25 msmazo fru ruior' JOHN HERBER AND FRANK SLATER, OI CLEVELAND, OHIO.

MILK-BOTTLE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1912.

Application filed May 26, 1911. Serial No. 629,528

- ing milk bottles and the like.

holder for milk bottles and other The objects of this invention are to provide an inexpensive, efficient and durable receptacles;-to provide a device of this character which is capable of being folded against the Wall to which it is secured when not in use; to provide such a device which has a cooperating cover-plate for the bottle to protect same; and to also provide an auxiliary support" for the bottom of paper bottles, which are used in a number of instances for sanitary purposes. To this end there are employed the hereinafter described parts or elements in a novel combination and arrangement, which are shown in the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, and in which'- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete device as in use, parts being broken away and the folded position of several of the parts being shown in dotted lines, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device as folded when not in use.

Referring specifically to the drawings, there is shown at 12 a horizontal lork for engaging the neck 4 of the bottle 3 in under the head 5 thereof, the open end of the said member being disposed forwardly. The rear stem 20 of the fork 12 has the depending flanges 18 at the sides thereof, the forward end of said flanges projecting beyond the bottom of the rear end to form the shoulder 17. This supporting member for the neck of the bottle can be stamped from sheet metal, or made in any other manner.

The rear end of the stem 20 of the necksupporting member or fork 12 is pivoted to a wall bracket secured to the side of a house or the like, to allow same to be swung in either a horizontal position when in. use, or in an upstanding vertica nositiom'when not in use, to bring same against the side of the house and out of the way when not in use. This wall bracket comprises the cheeks 6 having rear outstanding flanges 7 by which the bracket is secured in position by means of screws 10, and the chin 21 which joins the front edges of said plates. '5

This chin is broken away at its upper end to allow the stem 20, which is pivoted between the upper ends of the cheeks 6 by the lateral pin 11 passing through the flanges 18, to swing to a horizontal position, and when so swung the shoulder 17 thereof bears against the chin 21 to retain the said neck-supporting member in position. tending tween the cheeks 6 bears against the inner end of the stem 20, of which the upper rear edge 22- forms a cam cooperating with the bow-spring to tend to retain the said stem 20 and the fork 12 either in a horizontal or a vertical position, the said spring passing over indentations or fingers 9 projecting inwardly from the cheeks 6 to give a tension to same against the said stem 20. This bracket may be stamped from sheet metal, withthe spring 8 integral or separate therewith, or it can be made in any other manner.

The cover-plate comprises a circular disk 13 disposed above the neck-supporting member and has the rearwardly disposed and depending guides 14 straddling the stem 20, and having the elongated vertical slots 15 therein, through which extends a pin 16 projecting laterally from the flanges 18 of the said stem 20. The said guides 14 having a vertical and pivotal movement on the pin 16 allows forthe vertical adjustment and swing of the said cover-plate. When idle the said cover-plate drops against the neck-supporting member and can be swung out of position against the side of the house, as shown in the dotted lines of Fig. 1.

The su 'iporting member for the bottom of the bottles comprises a circular plate 23 spaced below the neck-supporting member and upon which the bottom of the bottles are adapted to rest. The said plate 23 has the rear projection 33 which is pivoted between the walls of the grmved projection 30, by a pin 27, of an adjustable member secured in the guide-plate 28. When the disk 23 is in horizontal position the projection 33 lies in the bottom of the groove to support the disk 23. The said adjustable member comprises the respective front and rear buttons 24 and connectedby an elongated web 25. The guide-plate 28 has the vertical slot 29 therein, along the ver:

A bow-spring 8 eX-- from the bottom of the bracket be},

projecting lugs 31. secured to the wall of .tom support tical edges of which are a series of laterally This guide-plate is a house by means of screws 32. Then when the web 25 is turned horizontally the same is arranged to set on a pair of the lugs 31, but when turned vertically, as shown 1n the dotted lines of Fi 2, the same is adjustable vertically. The said web and plate or disk 23 being vertically movable in the slotted plate 28 readily adjusted to any desired position by turning the same to be'moved vertically to be again turned thus engaging any desired lugs to accommodate the said botfor various sized bottles. The said plate 23 being pivoted at 27 can also be swung upward, as shown.

in use, the neck-supporting member is swung to a horizontal position and the bottle is inserted therein allowing the head thereof to slide in under the cover-plate 13,

which rises to accommodate the said head and rests thereon. Where paper bottles or the like are used, which are of less strength than lass bottles, it is desirable to also supp'ortt e bottom thereof by the plate 23 after being properly adjusted. the various parts can be folded against the side of the house to bring them out of the wa V This invention can also be altered within the scope of the appended claim, limited to the above specific constructlon.

- Having described our invention, whatwe claim as new is:

The combination with a hollow recessed bracket and a spring incased therein, of a forked member pivoted in the/bracket and fashioned with a shoulder to engage the front wall of the recessed bracket when the When not in use,

and is "not member is in horizontal position, a squared rear end to the member in contact-with the spring, and a cover plate having-slotted side armsconnected with said member.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN HEBBEB.

v "FRANK SLATER.

' Witnesses:"

Mormon E. MILLER, ELIZABETH A. JORDAN. 

